Medical Society of London
11 Chandos St, London W1G 9EB
09.00
Registration and coffee
09.30
Introduction
Donald Singer, FPM, London and Michael Hulse, University of Warwick
09.40
The purposes served by “medical” poetry
Chair: Michael Hulse, University of Warwick
Panel: Giskin Day, London, Karen McCarthy Woolf,
London, Femi Oyebode, Birmingham,
Ellen Storm, Liverpool, John Riddington Young, Bideford
10.20
Phineas Fletcher and the Purple Island
John Riddington Young, Bideford
10.40
Coffee
11.10
Echo poems
Joseph Gascho, Hummelstown, Pennsylvania,
USA
11.30
The Hollow Shrinks
Henry Verrall, Imperial College, London
11.50
Creative Writing in Student Nurse Reflections and Dementia Awareness
Romi Jones and Catherine Bailey, Northumbria University
12.10
Speaker Panel Discussion
Chair: Ellen Storm, Liverpool
12.30
Lunch
13.20
Poetry Readings
Wendy French, Ellen Storm, Karen McCarthy Woolf
14.10
The Healthy Heart schools project
Donald Singer CVRT, Wendy French, London and Rebecca Goss, Suffolk
14.25
Taking a turn for the verse: poetry in medical education
Giskin Day, Imperial College, London
14.45
The colour of cancer: poetry in palliative care
Wendy French, Raphael Shirley and Vikky Riley, University College Hospital London
15.05
Speaker Panel Discussion
Chair: Donald Singer
15.30
Tea
16.00
Hippocrates Prize awards ceremony
with judges Simon Rae, Rebecca Goss, Femi Oyebode
Reading by Rebecca Goss
Awards and readings from the Hippocrates Prize
Young Poets’ Prize
NHS Category
Open Category
17.00
Reception: wine, canapés and launch of
- Ellen Storm’s Rupture
- new 2015 Hippocrates Prize anthology of winning and commended poets
18.15
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